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It was revolutionized machine to speed the process of cotton.Eli Whitney invented it and the cotton Gin removed many barriers.
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Non-slave states to assist in the returning of escaped slaves
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There were 50 armed slaves around Richmond, They failed to gain control of a main road to Richmond. Someone tipped off the White authorities. Prosser and 25 of his followers were executed.
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Several hundred, poorly armed, slaves march on New Orleans. U.S> army stopped the March, over 60 slaves died. The heads of the leaders were posted on poles along the Mississippi River as a warning
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The first and most successful of the artificial waterways. Designed to link the Western markets to the Eastern manufacturing.
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Decrease the consumption of alcohol
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movement that generally embraces a literal reading of the Sabbath commandment that provides for both worship and rest on the seventh day of the week.
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The south is becoming less tied to to the plantations and slavery. Small farmers either didn't care or were opposed to slavery. n every decade after 1820 the internal slave trade drained off about 10% of the slaves in the Upper South.
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Turner thought he saw signs from heaven calling for vengeance against white oppressors. Led some followers, killed his owner the first day, killed 60 more white people the following 2 days. With the help of slaves a group of whites captured Turner, he hides for 2 months until caught and executed with 30 others. (panic strikes whites killed 100 other slaves)
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in Boston was organized as an auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society
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brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader
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Texan army defeated the Mexican army and then established there independence.
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Santa Anna refused to have Americans and their allies rise up against him. An army raised.
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Massachusetts legislature established the nation's first state board of education
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It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge
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4.2 million immigrants entered the US, the majority was from Ireland and Germany. From political and religious problems, Irish potato famine
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Virginia planter. Neutralized the highly acidic and worn out soil. Called for farmers to plow deeper furrows, rotate crops, and to upgrade their breeding stock
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shared the expansionists visions of his fellow democrats.
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Found Utah appealing because the lack of white settlers and its isolate location.
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also known as the Mexican war, President James Polk had the untied states and mexico fight,
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The first convention ever devoted to women's suffrage, or voting rights.
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The U.S. gained Texas north of the Rio Grande, California, and New Mexico. U.S. agreed to pay the Mexican Government $15 million
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when gold was found in California. The news of it brought 300,000 people.
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Tried to draw boundaries for the various tribes offering $50,000 a year for 50 years,
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established the final borders of the lower 48 states
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The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the "Know Nothing" movement, was an American nativist political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s.